Delivered into Czechoslovakia 4/1979. Served in 1. slp (fighter aviation regiment) Ceske Budejovice, 11. slp Zatec nad 4. zSL (fighter AFB) / 41. slt (fighter sq.) Caslav. Last flight 19. 12. 1995 with pplk. Medek and mjr. Kares into Kbely.
Detail of nose art on Mig-23MF from 1. slp (fighter aviation regiment) Ceske Budejovice AFB. The Bat is badge of 2nd sq. of 1. slp. Mig is wfu since 5.10.94 (last flight with pplk. Jiri Trunecka) and preserved in Aviation museum Kbely.
"Eagle" Mig-23BN from 28. sbolp (fighter-bomber aviation regiment) / Caslav AFB is seen during "Museum night 2013". First flight in Czechoslovakia 8.1.1983 (28. sbolp). Last flight 1.7.1994 with total of 850 hours 3 minutes. "Eagle" c/s since 24.6.1993.
Flogger K still in good shape back in 1997. Quite a lot of exhibits had to leave space for some parking places et al since then and went broken up/destroyed.
Still in good shape back in 1997, eventually destroyed by vandalism since then (broken canopy in 2011, and the exhibits have to leave space for some parking places et al)
Like every airbase in Russia, Kubinka also hosts a small collection of aircrafts in a museum area. The colors in 1997 where strong and faded away in the years after. Kodachrome64
Former '08' was the only NVA-LSK MiG-23S, which was used in the '80s in tests of the ATU-G/1 Flugzeugnotfanganlage (seen in the background) at Alteno air base. Artist Dr. Heiko Saxo applied this striking hi-viz camouflage in 2011.